Surprise at the murder trial of Kim Jong-un’s brother

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 Today, a court in Malaysia released one of the women charged in the murder of Kim Jong-un’s half brother, Kim Jong-nam. He died in 2017, after being smeared with VX nerve agent at an airport in Kuala Lumpur. The World’s Patrick Winn has the update.

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